Hi everyone, thanks in advance for any help with this.
I live on an island in the Caribbean. Internet is expensive and slow. I have a 6MB per second DSL connection for which I pay an obscene amount of money.
Here is what I would like to do. I have two guest houses on my property. I'd like them to have access to our internet and have Roku 2 boxes set up on TVs in each guest house.
I installed new Cat 6 cables from adjacent our DSL connection. I was going to relocate the main DSL modem provided by our internet carrier to our pump room where the phone line comes into the house. Then adjacent to that I was going to hook up a Ubiquita Tough Managed switch. This would allow me to use POE to power three Wireless Access Points - one in each guest house and one in our main house. The guest houses would have a different network name and password to the main house and traffic from the main house would be given a higher priority over the guest house traffic.
I set up one of the Roku boxes and come to find out I can't access most content since I'm out of the US. Seems like I can get around this by using a Smart DNS service on a router to change where I seem to be coming from. So question is, can I do this on my switch or do I need to put a router in between the switch and the modem? I have a DLink DGL 4500 lying around that I could use for this.
What are the chance of any or all of this working. Should I just forget about trying to get around the geographic blocks with this service?
Thanks in advance
I live on an island in the Caribbean. Internet is expensive and slow. I have a 6MB per second DSL connection for which I pay an obscene amount of money.
Here is what I would like to do. I have two guest houses on my property. I'd like them to have access to our internet and have Roku 2 boxes set up on TVs in each guest house.
I installed new Cat 6 cables from adjacent our DSL connection. I was going to relocate the main DSL modem provided by our internet carrier to our pump room where the phone line comes into the house. Then adjacent to that I was going to hook up a Ubiquita Tough Managed switch. This would allow me to use POE to power three Wireless Access Points - one in each guest house and one in our main house. The guest houses would have a different network name and password to the main house and traffic from the main house would be given a higher priority over the guest house traffic.
I set up one of the Roku boxes and come to find out I can't access most content since I'm out of the US. Seems like I can get around this by using a Smart DNS service on a router to change where I seem to be coming from. So question is, can I do this on my switch or do I need to put a router in between the switch and the modem? I have a DLink DGL 4500 lying around that I could use for this.
What are the chance of any or all of this working. Should I just forget about trying to get around the geographic blocks with this service?
Thanks in advance
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